Patents by Inventor Scott K. Davis

Scott K. Davis has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of Targeted and Comprehensive Sequencing Using High-Density Oligonucleotide Array
    Publication number: 20080268437
    Abstract: A method for targeted and comprehensive sequencing using high-density oligonucleotide array, comprising the steps of hybridizing nucleic acid from an investigative species with high-density oligonucleotide arrays of a related species, identifying the oligonucleotide probes that generate high hybridization signals, using the probes sequences to make PCR primers, amplifying heterologous genes by PCR with the gene specific PCR primers and an anchoring primer, and sequencing the PCR products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2005
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Inventors: Wan Ji, Wenli Zhou, Sara F. Davis, Scott K. Davis
  • Method for assigning an individual to a population of origin based on multi-locus genotypes
    Patent number: 6770437
    Abstract: This invention provides methods of assigning an individual to a population of origin based on statistical analyses of the individual's genotype and the genetic architecture of the underlying populations from which the individual may have originated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: ViaGen, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Francis Taylor, Sara L. F. Davis, Luke Lind, Scott K. Davis